effrontery / ɪˈfrʌn tə ri /

📖毕业后词汇媚俗媚态媚术媚俗之心

effrontery 的定义

n. 名词 noun

plural ef·fron·ter·ies.

  1. shameless or impudent boldness; barefaced audacity: She had the effrontery to ask for two free samples.
  2. an act or instance of this.

effrontery 近义词

n. 名词 noun

nerve, boldness

更多effrontery例句

  1. Last July in Moscow, Magnitsky was given a posthumous punishment for his effrontery by being put on trial for tax evasion.
  2. Without real and ingenious effrontery there is not doing anything at court.
  3. She had the effrontery to hold the baby up, with his little naked legs kicking in Tanqueray's face.
  4. How dared he have the effrontery to intrude his unclean carcass betwixt the wind and our nobility?
  5. The old Bohemian was there, in a humble attitude, little conformable with the effrontery natural to his race.
  6. Some of the senators doubted that the President had such "daring effrontery" as to ask for such power.